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Beer In Ads #2323: Carling’s Nine Pints Of The Law

June 30, 2017 By Jay Brooks


Friday’s ad is for Carling, from sometime between the early 1900s and the 1950s, sources vary. The ad, or ads, use an illustration entitled “Nine Pints of the Law,” by English artist Lawson Wood. It’s an obvious play on the legal term “nine points of the law,” or more fully “possession is nine points in the Law,” which was apparently a common saying, forst appearing in 1616 by Thomas Draxe, in Adages 163.

One print from the 1940s has text on the back that claims it was “Based On An Original Photograph Taken At Carlings Brewery, London, Ontario – 1881,” although the artist would have been only three at the time. Of course, he could have painted this from the photograph when he was olders. Another sources claims it was created in the early 1900s, and Wood started working as a commercial illustrator at last by 1896, so the timeing works. Other sources give various decades, such as the 1930s, 1940s or 1950s, although it seems likely that Carling continued to use the painting in ads for many decades. Below are several different uses of the artwork in Carling advertising, though I’m uncertain of the exact date of any of them, apart from most likely the first half of the 20th century.

Here’s a simple poster framing the art, with just the brewery name, “Carling’s” below the picture.

carling-9-pints-poster

This green poster is for Carling’s Red Cap Ale.

carling-9-pints-ad

And so is this one, but with a white background.

carling-9-pints-ad-2

And this tray appears to be from a little later.

carling-9-pints-tray

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Canada, Carling, England, Great Britain, History, Painting



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